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S. G. SHERWOOD.

PHOTOGRAPH CABINET.

No. 414,171. Patented 001;. 29.1889.

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PHOTOGRAPH CABINET.

Patented 0011.29, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

SIDNEY G. SIIER\YOOD, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOJOSEPH E. BARNARD, OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPH-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,171, dated October29, 1889.

Application filed February 6, 1889. Serial No. 298,811. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY G. SHERWOOD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Parlor Photograph-Cabinets; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a box or cabinet, in plain or ornamental form,for holding and displaying photographs in a series of singleor doublereceiving-cases set therein, in which one or two photographs are held,the cases or holders sliding in or out of the box in grooves; and theinvention as con structed will be understood by reference to thefollowing specification and claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe cabinetincross-section, a portion of the cover raised, and showing somephotoframes in the cabinet; Fig. 2, a perspective of the cabinet only,and open; Fig. 3, a top plan of cabinet open,with the photo-framestherein; Fig. 4, atop plan of a holder or frame; Fig. 5, a sideelevation of a photo-holder, showing the knobs or pins at the sides.

A represents the cabinet, either oblong, square, or of other suitableform, for holding the photograph-frames a a o, a therein. This cabinetis divided about in the middle at b, the back being intact and the upperhalf of the box A hinged thereto, as at f. The front is also hinged ate, and lets down, all as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. This gives morelight 40 and leaves the upper half or part of the photographs in theholders (1 a above the open part of the box, and the front being downshows the whole of the picture.

The frames or holders a a are held in place in the cabinet by knobs,pins (1 d, or other suitable device on their sides, as in Figs. 1,

4, and 5, and which run in slides or grooves c 0, cut or formed in theinside of the box, as shown. These keep the frames in place, hold themupright, allow one after another to be slid out, turned over to beexamined, and, when put back in place with the reverse side in front,presenting different pictures provided for by the double case a.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a photograph cabinet or holderconsisting of the oblong box A, having the hinged front and top, thecabinet having on its inner sides slots or grooves c, in combinationwith the photograph cases orframes a, having pins or projections d ontheir sides adapted to slide in the grooves c of the cabinet,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIDNEY G. SHERWVOOD.

\Vitnesses:

J. R. DRAKE, J NO. R. KENNEY.

